_________________________________________________________________________   "I continue to be amazed... will never be able to understand...but I've chosen to simply respond with gratefulness and worship." Dyane Davis _________________________________________________________________________ Dyane Davis, the Worship Pastor at LifeSpring Church (Abbotsford) and her daughter were in a terrible car accident on November 2nd, 2023. The car was t-boned on the driver's side, and Dya

_______________________________________________________________________ "If I wasn't in such agony, I would not have bothered to go. But thank God I did." _______________________________________________________________________ When I was 28 years old and still living in Kelowna, I started dating a younger man whom I had met at the office in which I worked. He was a super-nice guy, and he quickly became very serious about where our relationship was headed. However, I had not

_________________________________________________________________________ "I could not take one more day on this planet. It was torture." _________________________________________________________________________ My nephew Connor was only 10 years old when another child introduced him to pornographic material. His innocence and faith in God were immediately snatched away with the power of what blasted into his young mind. It's important for parents and other caregivers to kn

_________________________________________________________________________ "She quietly said, 'I feel like I'm supposed to tell you something.'" _________________________________________________________________________ When I was a little girl, I adored my dad so much that I naively decided I would marry him when I grew up. (If I had told Mom, I'm pretty sure she would have said he was taken.) From about the age of 4, when I woke to the sound of his pick-up being fired up to

In my previous blog post, "A Trilogy of Healings", I described three healings which were partial but nonetheless miraculous. A long-time friend of mine had a baby against all odds. Years later, in a "tent meeting", the same friend's adopted daughter was healed of arthritis, and at approximately the same time in the same place, my other friend had her eyes healed! But in each case, the healings, although wonderful and supernatural, were not 100%, which leaves one wondering w

I met Brenda sometime around 1993 in Kitsilano/Vancouver one Friday evening when she showed up at the little church I had been attending...

I have a friend named Louise whom I encounter every now and then. Several years ago, I was just walking out of the bank and there she was coming up the sidewalk toward me. We had stopped and chatted for a few moments when she revealed to me that one of her hands was giving her a lot of pain. I looked at it and was kind of startled to see that it was swollen with blue traces on greyish-white skin, and it had been getting worse over the previous week. It had started with no

"I truly felt broken and on the brink of insanity. I wanted to escape to a hospital, but I knew I would be taking 'it' with me." _________________________________________________________________________ I think most people have at least one type of human experience that they hope will never touch them, and they do everything in their power to avoid that "thing" because they believe it would take them beyond their ability to cope. Also, there are some horrible conditions or

First: How I Ended Up On A Worship Team When our sweet time at the stately old heritage home ran out, one of my roommates and I decided to get an apartment together. Soon, near the corner of 4th Ave and Balsam Street, about five blocks up the hill from popular Kits Beach, I found a beautiful little 2-bedroom with hardwood floors, a pretty kitchen, and a gorgeous maple tree just outside the living room window. After sundown, a street lamp would cast perfectly defined, gentl

_________________________________________________________________________ "Patty began to talk to God....As soon as she did, I felt warmth come into my feet and start working its way up." _________________________________________________________________________ In 1992, after finishing university and then spending some time not thriving in an office job in Burnaby, I moved to the beautiful False Creek neighborhood of Vancouver. A couple of friends living in the area had spo

_________________________________________________________________________ "...A few minutes later, I suddenly realized the pain was gone, just melted away, after all those months!" _________________________________________________________________________ In the 1990s, a spiritual revival was happening in the Lower Mainland of BC, during which freedom was a major theme--freedom from manmade religious rules, freedom from various addictions, freedom to be yourself, and so on. I

From an early age I began to pick up the messages, "You're stupid. You're bad. You're guilty," which inwardly translated to "You should...

After my dream life was healed from paralyzing nightmares (see previous post Forty Years of Traumatizing Nightmares...), I realized that God wants to use my dreams for good: not only to help me but also to help others. I learned that the Powers of Darkness want to have me, use me and destroy me, but if I fix my eyes on the Power Who is the Light, JESUS, the Darkness cannot have its way. Two wonderful dreams I had after I was free involved my father. I had no memory of ever h

________________________________________________________________________ At the very least it revealed some sort of spiritual connection across the miles. ________________________________________________________________________ Seeing into the Unseen Realm. The terrifying nightmares started for me when I was about 4 or 5 years old when we moved to a wonderful 75-acre piece of property in central BC, where Dad had built us a small house, just big enough to squeeze in all elev

_________________________________________________________________________ "For the first time in my life, I did not wish I was dead."...

________________________________________________________________________ There is hope. There is help. There is healing....

For as far back as she could remember into her early childhood, Marni had wished the she was dead. She hated herself and felt it would...

I asked Gary what hope his doctors had given him of ever recovering from his illness. He had met with numerous doctors over the years, and all but one of them had said schizophrenia is "for life". One said there was a possibility of remission. So I asked him what he would like to say to those who conclude that his healing was a spontaneous remission. He responded, "People have freedom of choice given to them by God." He was concerned only about the consequences for anyone

As it turns out, there was more to the story than I knew. When Gary was 22 until 24 years old, before the diagnosis, he had been having...

I recall it being a summer morning, maybe the end of June. I had graduated from high school, our two older sisters had gone off to...